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Albany early 1900s

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
7/1920- PG34, 8.1921- CL22	New Orleans (ex-Amazonas)		Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1895	4.12.1896	18.3.1898	stricken 11.1929
7.1920- PG36, 8.1921- CL23	Albany (ex-Almirante Abreu)		Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1897	14.1.1899	25.5.1900	stricken 11.1929

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3769
Displacement full, t	4011
Length, m	108.0
Breadth, m	13.3
Draught, m	5.49
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	7500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	CL22: coal 747 CL23: coal 767
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 32 with 89mm slopes, boiler room glacis: 102, CT: 102
Armament	6 x 1 - 152/50 Mk V (EOC DD), 4 x 1 - 120/50 EOC AA, 10 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 8 x 1 - 37/23 Hotchkiss Mk I, 3 - 450 TT (2 beam, 1 bow)
Complement	366

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Project history

Purchased from Brazil under the Act of 9.3.1898. They were sisters of the Almirante Barroso. 152mm guns were on the forecastle and poop, and in sponsons to port and starboard located just abaft the fore- and mainmasts. 120mm guns were between the latter 4 152mm.

Ship protection

There was 32mm Krupp armour deck with 89mm slopes amidships. Boilers were protected by 102mm glacis. CT had 102mm protection.

Modernizations

1903, both: - 4 x 1 - 120/50; + 4 x 1 - 127/50 Mk V/VI

1907, both: - 6 x 1 - 152/50; + 6 x 1 - 127/50 Mk V/VI

to 1918, both: - 2 x 1 - 127/50

Naval service

Both were ultimately decommissioned in late 1922 after long and varied service, and it would appear that the USA made a good buy with these two ships.

1900s